Richard Scott – That Broke into Shining Crystals
Sometimes books rewire the brain. Even as you read, you know already that, by the time you’re done, you’ll be …
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A Fragile Thing – Camille Ralphs’ After You Were, I Am
After a chance remark about George Herbert, the librarian pulled a small volume from the shelf: leatherbound and plain, scruffy …
Penny Boxall’s The Curiosities
I’ve been never one for zoos, but daily life offers the same anxieties. Visiting my mother in her gated compound, …
Woven Song—Liane Strauss’s ‘The Flaws in the Story’
In a world of spoilers, ignorance can be a superpower. And so it was when I visited Sir John Soane’s …
World in Motion—Matthew Stewart’s ‘Whatever you do, just don’t’
I was lent a copy of Eduardo Galeano’s Football in Sun and Shadow by a friend. She attempted to convey …
Great balls of fire – Keith Chandler’s The Goldsmith’s Apprentice
Sadly, the lube applied to my intimate area was not recreational but medical. Following numbness, blood, a phone call, I …
Poor Rude Lines 